Tips for mortgage bloggers

Writing longer blog articles – part 1

Writing longer blog articles – part 2

As you can see, there is a small but important difference between writing a regular blog post of a few paragraphs and writing a longer blog article. A little more planning and thought at the beginning, before you actually start to write the post, is the primary difference.

Communicate

Actually, following the same process for all blog posts could produce for you better posts no matter what amount of content is in your blog post. Even on very short posts you probably will follow the 8 steps, but not formally. If you review this article you should be able to see how I used the process to write it.

I also suggest that you group the steps into 2 phases.

1. The first 4:  Theme, Brainstorming, Outline, and Tags, Categories, and Images should be completed, reviewed and updated to your satisfaction before you begin the second phase.
2. The second 4:  Forms, Breakup, Details, and Recap. Determine the forms you need and the references that you want to link to and use.  How will you break up the article and write the details are almost one process. The last step, Recap, is to tie up any lose ends and to address any questions that need addressed. The Recap is also a good place to include any forms or documents that you want to include.

For this article I created a short form that you can you use when you are working on your article. tfslocom-longerblogform .

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